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From: Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>

Subject: 1st RFD: misc.business.facilitators moderated (remove)

Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 22:56:11 EDT

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              REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)

              moderated group misc.business.facilitators



This is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) to remove moderated

newsgroup misc.business.facilitators.



RATIONALE:



According to Google's archive the last regular post was approved on

1999-03-27. Probe messages showed no result.



NEWSGROUPS LINE:



misc.business.facilitators	Forum for group facilitation professionals. (Moderated)



DISTRIBUTION:



news.announce.newgroups

news.groups.proposals

misc.business.facilitators



CHARTER OF MISC.BUSINESS.FACILITATORS



misc.business.facilitators will be a world-wide unmoderated forum for

all professional workshop, seminar, and meeting facilitators,

moderators, mediators, designers, leaders, and trainers who provide

facilitation-type services to businesses, communities, or governmental

agencies.  This newsgroup will be open to (but not limited to) those

who



- conduct professional training workshops or seminars (e.g., CareerTracks type

  seminars, management retreats, Seven Habits)

- design and conduct Search Conferences or Future Conferences

- design and conduct Participatory Design Workshops

- provide OD consulting and facilitation services

- design and conduct systems design workshops using a methodology like JAD,

  FAST, or The METHOD.

- facilitate electronic meetings using groupware or meetingware (e.g.,

  GroupSystems V, TeamFocus, CI-Toolkit, C.A.Facilitator)

- facilitate decision conferences

- conduct team building workshops or assist self-directed teams

- provide quality improvement assessment and facilitation services (e.g., TQM,

  Malcolm Baldrige, Quest 2000, ISO-9000)

- provide conflict resolution, intervention, moderation, or arbitration services

- assist organizations in strategic planning, process engineering and

  reengineering

- facilitate meetings for their organization



This group is not open to advertisers of seminars, workshops, and consulting

services.



HISTORY OF THE GROUP:



misc.business.facilitators is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for

creation by 241:16 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 19 Dec 1995.



PROPONENT:



Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>



PROCEDURE:



Those who wish to comment on this request to remove this newsgroup should

subscribe to news.groups.proposals and participate in the relevant threads

in that newsgroup.



To this end, the followup header of this RFD has been set to

news.groups.proposals.



In the course of the removal process four formal announcements are posted

(MVI, 1st RFD, 2nd RFD, and LCC), each taking two weeks. At the end of the

process the B8MB will vote on the issue.



Available options for misc.business.facilitators are:

- leave the group as it is

- remove the group



For more information on the MVI process, please see 



http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:mvi



CHANGE HISTORY:



2010-01-17	First probe post

2010-05-18	Moderator Vacancy Investigation

2010-06-09	1st RFD

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